Fond Memories of my Childhood in Salford

I was born in 1946 at 66 Marlborough Road in the front parlour of my gran's house. We lived at that time at 7 Harrietta Street, Higher Broughton, Salford 8 which was then know as Hightown. The chip shop on Garnett Street, infact there was 2 chippies, Smiths and Faulkners and both of these chippies have never been bettered. We used to have an ice-cream man come round our streets selling the most wonderful ice-cream you ever tasted and I could never afford one. When Joe the ice-cream man came into our street he always stopped outside our house and asked me to go and get him half an ounce of tobacco from Rigbys shop round the corner and when I returned he gave me an ice-cream for my trouble how wonderful was that, thanks Joe. In Garnett Street there was a greengrocer's called Olivers and on Whit Sunday he gave an apple and an orange to EVERY child who came into his shop wearing new clothes, that doesn't happen today. Thanks Mr Oliver. I lived in Harrietta Street, my mum and dad were called Rene and Albert Taylor. I went to Marlborough Road School, at the time I was at school there we had 2 headteachers, Mrs Birchall and Mr Kenyon. Mrs Birchall was in charge of the downstairs pupils and she used to paint pictures on the windows of every classroom, she was a wonderful teacher and painter, a very kind lady. Mr Kenyon was in charge of the upstairs pupils, he was a very hard taskmaster but a really wonderful teacher, I once went to visit him and his wife after I left school and they made me so welcome. When we lived in Harrietta Street all the families used to work together when there was an occasion, like Maypole dancing, Whit Walks, Bonfire Night, also when the present Queen was crowned, bunting was put all across the street and a great street party was had by all. I have to be honest and say that my younger days in Salford were and always will be the best of my life. We don't have the same community any more so my memories of the past are precious to me, thank God for the old Salford.